WorksheetsPeople of Psychology
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Who conducted the first laboratory experience in psychology concerning psychophysics and the atoms of the mind?
G. Stanley Hall
Socrates
Wilhelm Wundt
William James
Who is associated with studying both learned helplessness and started the field of positive psychology?
Martin Seligman
Elizabeth Loftus
Philip Zimbardo
Mary Calkins
Which psychologist is MOST associated with the creation of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in cognitive psychology?
Carl Rogers
Albert Ellis
Aaron Beck
Sigmund Freud
Which person in psychology is considered the father of classical conditioning because of his work with dogs?
B.F. Skinner
E.L. Thorndike
Ivan Pavlov
E.C. Toleman
Who conducted the famous memory experiment involving misinformation effect and wording effects about a car crash?
Mary Ainsworth
Elizabeth Loftus
Sigmund Freud
Paul Ekman
Who observed that people from all cultures exhibit the same facial expressions, but also abide by the display rules of when to show certain expressions of emotion?
E.C. Toleman
Paul Ekman
Aaron Beck
David Buss
Who conducted a study a involving the Heinz moral dilemma (steal the drug), and classified morals into pre, post and conventional stages?
Mary Ainsworth
Erik Erikson
Lawrence Kohlberg
Carl Jung
Who created to cat puzzle box to prove the law of effect (if the behavior results in a positive outcome, the behavior will be repeated)?
Harry Harlow
E.C. Tolman
E.L. Thorndike
Albert Bandura
Who conducted a 'shocking' study regarding obedience and compliance that is now deemed unethical in the field of psychology?
Jean Piaget
Solomon Asch
Alfred Binet
Stanley Milgram
Who would be most associated with the forgetting curve and his study of the serial position effect? (Hint: He is the father of memory research).
Konrad Lorenz
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Martin Seligman
B.F. Skinner
Which social psychologist studied how people will change their behavior when they experience an inner tension caused by cognitive dissonance?
Muzafer Sherif
Albert Bandura
Jane Goodall
Leon Festinger
Which psychologist would be most concerned about a person's inferiority complex?
Alfred Adler
Carl Jung
Alfred Binet
E.C. Tolman
Who conducted the Bobo Doll study and also coined the terms reciprocal determinism and self-efficacy?
Martin Seligman
Albert Bandura
B.F. Skinner
Aaron Beck
Which psychologist created the Stanford-Binet intelligence test and also tracked gifted children through adulthood while promoting the eugenics movement?
Alfred Binet
Charles Spearman
Lewis Terman
William Stern
Who wrote the first textbook in psychology and also was the creator of the functionalism movement?
Wilhelm Wundt
Plato
Edward Titchener
William James
Who would agree that intelligence can be boiled down to a single factor and named this factor "g"?
Howard Gardner
Charles Spearman
John Mayer
Robert Sternberg
Which psychologist devoted his time to studying cognitive maps and how rats can learn a maze by "sight-seeing" the maze?
E.C. Tolman
Albert Bandura
B.F. Skinner
Paul Broca
Which woman of psychology became the first president of the APA even though she was denied her Ph.D. from Harvard while studying with William James?
Mary Calkins
Elizabeth Loftus
Karen Horney
Margaret Washburn
Who would agree that "understanding of language" seems to be focused in the left temporal lobe?
Carl Wernicke
Paul Broca
David Buss
Charles Spearman
Which psychologist showed how people can get caught up in their roles and lose a sense of self during the Stanford Prison Study?
Amos Tversky
Albert Bandura
Solomon Asch
Philip Zimbardo
Who proposed that their are eight, life-long, unconscious stages of conflict that will shape social development? (Hint: Trust vs. Mistrust)
Carl Rogers
Sigmund Freud
Harry Harlow
Erik Erikson
Who disagreed with Kohlberg's theory that women cannot achieve the highest levels of moral development?
Albert Bandura
Carol Gilligan
Mary Ainsworth
Margaret Washburn
Who conducted the Robber's Cave study that pitted groups of boys against each other, only to bring them back together using superordinate goals?
Muzafer Sherif
Stanley Milgram
Hans Eysenck
Howard Gardner
Who developed the cognitive development theory that includes sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete and formal stages?
Erik Erikson
Sigmund Freud
Jean Piaget
Robert Sternberg
Who opened the first psychology lab in America at Johns Hopkins University?
Wilhelm Wundt
G. Stanley Hall
Harry Harlow
William James
Who would be associated with developing the humanistic therapy techniques of unconditional positive regard and active listening?
Mary Ainsworth
Joseph Wolpe
Aaron Beck
Carl Rogers
Which psychologist used his knowledge of savant syndrome to develop the theory of multiple intelligences?
Howard Gardner
Charles Spearman
Lewis Terman
John Mayer
Which psychologist said that "comfort contact" and "tactile touch" are the most important qualities to form attachment?
David Buss
Mary Ainsworth
Harry Harlow
Lev Vygotsky
Who would consider the unconscious conflicts of the id and superego to be a driving force in a person's personality?
Abraham Maslow
Sigmund Freud
Aaron Beck
Hans Eysenck
She would agree that responsive parenting helps to form secure attachment in children.
Elizabeth Loftus
Mary Calkins
Mary Ainsworth
Lara Boyd
This psychologist researched the different parenting styles which included authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive.
Konrad Lorenz
Diana Baumrind
Mary Ainsworth
Erik Erikson
He wrote the paper, "On Being Sane in Insane Places" based on his time developing theories about the negative impacts of diagnostic labels.
Leon Festinger
Philip Zimbardo
David Rosenhan
John Locke
His work with taste aversion was so important that they named an effect after him.
John Bowlby
Paul Ekman
James Garcia
Raymond Cattell
His work as a student of Freud's is highly regarded for his spiritual aspects of the collective unconscious and archetypes.
Erik Erikson
Carl Jung
Alfred Kinsey
Ernest Hilgard
He was one of the main researchers of cognitive decision-making, which includes framing, availability heuristics, and representativeness heuristics.
Noam Chomsky
Daniel Kahneman
Gordon Allport
Alfred Binet
Who worked on developing comprehensive research on human sexual behavior, even though his sample was considered biased?
Alfred Kinsey
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Daniel Goleman
Alfred Adler
Which psychologist was famous for studying human needs and developed the hierarchy of needs pyramid?
E.C. Tolman
Robert Sternberg
Abraham Maslow
Carl Jung
In terms of intelligence, which psychologist proposed that there are three types of intelligence, namely, analytic, creative, and practical intelligences?
Lewis Terman
William Stern
Charles Spearman
Robert Sternberg
Who would have agreed that a cognitive label is needed to experience a specific emotion?
Hans Eysenck
Stanley Schachter
William James
Walter Cannon
Who developed the theory of general adaptation syndrome (GAS) which states how our body reacts to stress in three distinct stages?
Jean Piaget
Julian Rotter
Hans Selye
Lev Vygotsky
